St Monicah's School Kenya

In February 2011, Ixworth CEVC Primary School was contacted by a group supporting St Monicah's School in Kenya to ask if we had any spare sweatshirts or cardigans as the children attending St Monicah’s wear the same colour uniform as we do. Ben Ryan, from St Monicah’s Support Group, visited the school in late February and collected nearly 40 sweatshirts, as well as books and skipping ropes, to distribute to the children in St Monicah’s. If you look carefully, you can see St Monicah's children wearing Ixworth tops in some of the photographs. St Monicah's School was set up in 2005. It is situated on the edge of the Kwa Murugi slum, located in Free Area, Nakuru. It is a primary school with over 100 children aged between 3 – 10 years. Many of them live in the slum where most families live on less than a pound a day. The majority of school children cannot pay their school fees. St Monicah's Support Group's dream is to establish a school which will educate the children out of this slum, enabling them to break the cycle of poverty, and in turn help the whole community to develop. The children have already exchanged letters and drawings and we will continue to build this link and to support St Monicah's. During March we raised £365 which has been used to add walls, a door and windows to Class 3. There was also enough to mend the leaking roof in Baby class. Pictures have been added to the slide show below.